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Don't get me wrong, if this was sold as a standalone game in a vacuum, this would have been a good game. My problems with it aside the multitude of bugs that are (probably) temporary is that it's barely an AoE2 DE DLC despite it being sold to people as a DLC for other game. It is a re-launch of the re-launch of AoE1 DE, which was objectively a mediocre game with little to no new content aside from the "updated" graphics, with dreadful pathfinding, basically no support, and unable to capture any significant audience, specially the Vietnamese audience with no more than 600 daily players at any given time (by the way, I doubt the Vietnamese players will buy this, and that's kind of bad considering it's one of their target audiences), because AoE1 DE was clearly (and unfortunatly) intended as an experiment for AoE2 DE. This DLC is what AoE1 DE should have been from the begining in terms of gameplay, graphics and quality of life, but it isn't even a complete port of the original one. None of the original campaigns are available (you can play them through mods, but that shouldn't be responsability of the modding community, and these mods obviously don't have narration and voice acting). Plus, if you bought AoE1 DE this expansion doesn't offer any sort of discount, which wouldn't be a problem if it was a complete port and if AoE1 DE was a decent game on it's own. So it is weird how they advertised this as an AoE2 DE expansion when in reality is a port.
In terms of AoE2 content, you basically receive 1 civ, the Romans. No campaigns, no scenarios, which is kind of expensive for a single civ if you don't care about AoE1. And that's leaving aside the fact that they are temporarely unavailable in ranked games, and the whole subjective debate of whether Romans make sense to include (timeframe of the game, redundancy with existing civs in terms of culture/gameplay, prioritizing them over other "more fitting" civs, etc...)
I wish the developers were much more clear with their advertising and more confident about the product to sell it for its own merits instead of attaching it to its more successful brother as a "DLC" to force people to buy it. To be clear, I did buy the game fully knowing all of the points mentioned above, I did read the description, and I fully understood the contents of the DLC. but I bought it because I wanted to have an informed opinion it to see if it is worth buying for other people. I honestly can't recommend it if you are looking for a good deal, unless you already like AoE1 or if you REALLY like Romans and have money to spare. I have to dislike this expansion, sorry devs.